ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,364, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HAZET-WERK HERMANN ZERVER GMBH & Co. KG (Remscheid, Germany).
"Tool supply device" was invented by Guido Schmidt (Remscheid, Germany) and Christian Koschella (Remscheid, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool supply device according to the present disclosure is a workshop trolley, a workbench or a tool cabinet. The tool supply device has a housing and containers, for example, drawers, arranged in the housing. At least one tool carrier is provided in the container, which has a receptacle for a tool, wherein the receptacle is assigned a detector for detecting the presence of a tool in th...